CAR lovers everywhere have fawned over the collection of cars accrued by late Chic-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy.
His recipe for chicken sandwiches may have been simple, but his taste in cars proved to be anything but.
S. Truett Cathy may have ruffled feathers as a deep Southern Christian man, but nothing negative could be said about the cars he chose to collect.
Before turning his fortune by selling chicken sandwiches, he worked at a Ford assembly plant in Atlanta for over 60 years, which helped foster his deeply rooted love for cars.
After earning the "billionaire" title from his Chick-fil-A franchise, he began to collect vehicles that were not only rare and expensive but had deep historical roots.
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One of the vehicles in his collection is former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert's 1937 Lincoln Continental, as well as George Glaze's Brewster 8 Town Car.
Ever the movie buff, Cathy also has a 1981 DMC DeLorean DMC-12 made famous by the Back to the Future movies - it only has 634 miles on the odometer.
He also couldn't resist a genuine 1992 Batmobile piloted by Micheal Keaton in Tim Burton's "Batman Returns," built around a Chevrolet 350 cubic-inch V8 that churned more than 200 horsepower.
Cathy bought one of the three models that went for auction, he'd purchased it for $250,000, though some models were listed on eBay for $310,000.
Another famous in his broad garage is a 1959 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II that belonged to Eva Gabor, a classic movie star who only put 18,024 miles on the clock.
He also coveted a 1900 Packard Model B, which was the first automobile to come with a storage container for driver's gloves, which later became the standard "glove compartment" in modern cars.
Another celebrity-owned vehicle collected by Cathy was a 1992 Land Rover Range Rover that was custom-built for boxing legend Mike Tyson.
The chassis was elongated and converted to six-wheel drive and boasted white leather seats throughout and red mink inserts.
With a need for speed, he also stores a 1983 Lamborghini Countach LP500 S, which was revered to be a "hero of the eighties."
Bringing his collection to more modern eras was a 2000 American General Hummer Wagon that was customized with a shiny candle apple red color, a bull par, and a lift kit to make it the ultimate off-roader.
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Since Cathy's passing in 2014, Cathy's son, Dan Cathy, inherited his father's fortune, car collection, and the Chic-fil-A company.
He served as the company's CEO from 2013 to 2021 and was the third member of the family to lead the company since its inception in 1967.
No longer the CEO, Dan remains a chair on the company's board of directors.
